Search@UW

Search@UW provides students, faculty, and staff with access to all the books, media, and journals
held by Polk Library and the UW system, as well as the online articles, video, databases, and ebooks
licensed by Polk. Use My Account to keep track of loans, requests, and your personalized e-Shelf.

RefWorks

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool provided through UW Oshkosh. With RefWorks, you can
automatically export citations from databases like Academic Search Complete, WorldCat, and websites,
then automatically generate bibliographies and in-text citations in over 1,000 continuously updated
styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and more.

Research Databases

SocINDEX contains over 2 million records from more than 1,200 core journals (some dating as far back as 1895), plus another selected group of over 3,200 journals, as well as monographs and conference papers. The database includes full text from 766 journals, some back to 1908, more than 820 monographs, and 13,900 conference papers. Also included are over 25,000 biographical and bibliographic Author Profiles.

The United States Government Manual The United States Government Manual is the official handbook of the Federal Government and provides comprehensive and authoritative descriptions of the programs and activities of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.

Congress.gov Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service

Wisconsin Statutes This site provides access to the Wisconsin statutes as a searchable database/index and allows retrieval of portions of the statutes in pdf format.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

This site created by the United States Census Bureau provides access to the 2012 Census of Governments, government employment and payrolls, government finance statistics, lists & structure of government, tax statistics, pension systems and more.